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Walden Chapter 6: Visitors
- Thoreau says that he loved people
and society even during his days at
Walden Pond.
- He entertained many
people, as many as 25 to
30 at a time.
- If he had only one visitor, he offered a very
modest dinner. If any more he did not offer
dinner because he believed it a mistake of
society to rest one's reputation on the dinners
someone gives.
- Thoreau has many visitors in
Walden Pond, most of which he
turned away.
- One visitor Thoreau spent some time with was
a Canadian wood chopper, he was a simple
man who interested Thoreau because he was
content in his quiet and solitary life of
chopping trees and hunting animals.
- Other visitors include
those who ask for water
which he points them to
the pond.
- Poor guests who ask for
hospitality and are turned
away because "objects of
charity are not guests."
- Runaway slaves which Thoreau
points north.
- Other guests Thoreau had were children,
men of business, reformers, ministers, and
many others.